Penguin beats false advertising claims over memoir

Our client, Penguin Group, won a class-action lawsuit against it over its promotion of Lance Armstrong's bestselling memoir It's Not About the Bike.

We helped Penguin set new precedent by convincing a U.S. district court that their promotional statements were “inextricably intertwined” with the book's contents and therefore entitled to the same full protection of the First Amendment, rather than lesser protections associated with commercial speech. The court applied California's anti-SLAPP law in striking the complaint.